Buddy Boldens Blues piano tutorial

More on blues piano in my book: This is an overview piano tutorial for Buddy Bolden s Blues a really good New Orleansstyle blues by Jelly Roll Morton. It s a useful blues to look at for a number of reasons. First, it has an interesting chord progression which differs from the standard 12bar pattern, in that it uses a series of diminished passing chords to move from one principle chord to the next. The way these are used and especially the way you can exploit different bass vo br, br,